Something colossal happened last Thursday morning  – something inconceivable for the rational mind. At Pi Glilot, Israel fell victim to a barbaric act of war of cataclysmic proportions. Enemy forces staged a well-planned, well-informed attack on a strategic target. They planted a bomb, and after waiting until the proper moment for maximum impact, detonated the device.   Their plan and…

Americans this week have been swamped with dire pronouncements by their leaders warning that additional terrorist attacks on US soil are a foregone conclusion. From Vice President Richard Cheney to FBI Director Robert Mueller, Americans this week were told it is only a question of time before they will again experience mass murder similar in scale to the September 11…

Speaking to the Likud central committee on Sunday night, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said any discussion of Palestinian statehood "is dangerous to the State of Israel and will prematurely increase the pressures on it."   Given the international fallout from the Likud's stinging rejection of the prime minister's view restatements of support for Palestinian independence by Washington, Brussels, et al,…

Putting a happy, if inaccurate, face on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit with US President George W. Bush, a “high-ranking source” told journalists on Sharon’s plane the US agrees with Israel that reform of the Palestinian Authority is a precondition for renewing the peace process.   Almost simultaneously, US Secretary of State Colin Powell refuted this claim. In a press…

Wednesday’s New York Times led with the banner headline, “New Strategy Set by US and Saudis for Mideast Crisis.” The article cited administration sources, explaining that the outcome of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah’s visit to US President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, was a “division of labor” between the two.     The Saudis are to deliver Palestinian…

First came Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's lone defense of Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process who last week insinuated that Israel committed war crimes in the UN-managed Jenin refugee camp. He stated, among other things, that "Israel has lost all moral ground in this conflict."     Then came the Makor Rishon newspaper's revelation…

  On Remembrance Day, members of the reserve infantry company that lost 13 men last Tuesday were given a day's furlough from combat to visit the families of their fallen comrades.     Outside the home of their dead company commander, Maj. Oded Golomb, they spoke to reporters of their friends' heroism. Capt. Ya'acov Azulay, for instance, died after running…

In his address to the Knesset earlier this week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon laid the groundwork for a possible indictment of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat for war crimes. Let's review the evidence to help US Secretary of State Colin Powell prepare for his meeting with Arafat tomorrow.   Sharon read from two documents confiscated from Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah…

During a telephone interview with Al-Jazeera television on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's offer of a “one-way ticket” out of the area by retorting, "Why? Is this my homeland or his?"   Arafat went on to explain "the Palestinian people has been rooted to this land since before the time of Abraham, the…